This technique of coaxing bulbs into early bloom indoors is sometimes called forcing the easiest bulbs are crocus hyacinths muscari and mini daffodils.
What bulbs can be forced indoors.
But before you rush out to add them to your outdoor garden consider this.
Tulips and standard daffodils can also be forced but they require more careful attention.
Perhaps the easiest bulb to grow indoors is a paperwhite and fortunately they cost as little as a dollar or less to buy per bulb.
There are two categories of bulbs you can force into bloom indoors.
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1 bulbs that do not require chilling.
These tropical bulbs paperwhites and amaryllises can be planted right away.
Forcing paperwhites amaryllis without cooling.
Choosing and preparing bulbs for forcing.
Forcing bulbs indoors is easy to do whether you are forcing bulbs in water or in soil.
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Keep reading to learn about how to force a bulb inside your home.
Almost any spring blooming bulb can be forced to bloom indoors but some spring blooming bulbs are more popular for bulb forcing.
When the threat of hard frost has passed plant each bulb with a.
Orientalis can all be forced without cooling successive plantings made about two weeks apart after mid october can produce indoor flowers from thanksgiving until late march.
Crocus hyacinth muscari and mini daffodils.
But this is not the case with the hardy amaryllis which can be forced year after year when planted in soil.
Continue to water the bulbs after they bloom and keep them in a sunny window.
2 bulbs that require a chilling or cold period before forcing.
Interestingly enough they can be forced to grow indoors at any time of the year though they are most popular in the late fall through winter so that we can decorate our homes with fresh blooms during the holidays.
You also can have bulbs indoors in those not so warm months.
The easiest ones to force are.
Most of the bulbs in our collections are winter hardy to at least zone 4 30 f.